Kira☆Kira

[KnightHart]

Originally Posted by izmosmolnar

Spoiler for Chie-Nee's , Kashi's end:

Well I finished Kashiwara's then Chie-nee's arks so far, and despite that I was really anticipating Chie, her route was sorta lacking. The part with the guitar genius old man was unrelated to the whole issue of Chie-nee (unlike Kashi's route with meeting the uncle who gave the guitar of her Father to her), and the part with the yakuza girl made my blood boil. I really despised that girl... And then she even follows them to Tokyo.... Obviously she feels totally obligated to interfere with the issue of Chie-nee's family, despite that she knows her for less than a month. At the latter parts I just ctrl-d through what she says, I so disliked her in the end.
Anyway, I believe the whole divorce thing was a bit overdramatized, I could understand what's happening with my parents when my mom cheated on my dad (I was 8 and my sis 6), yet we didn't take it so badly as the adult Chie. I'm sorry, but I couldn't really sympathize with her in the same situation.
Additionally the ending didn't really solve the issues at all. We didn't see Chie-nee reconciling with her Father, and her baby little brother is still not born yet. I felt the cut where the route ended was a bit too sudden, and I would have liked if these things would have been answered in the end (maybe the true end will answer it, IDK, but don't tell me about it as I don't want to be spoiled). At least the last concert was cool (even Hirakami was playing ).
Kashi's route was nice though.

Otherwise I think some of the narrated descriptions and such are a bit tediously detailed and not quite interesting or relevant.
Gonna try Kirari's routes now after playing Ran's route in Sengoku Rance.

awww how can you hate the adorable Midori sorta agree about that old man though >_>;;

[Von Himmel]

Hey, the old man is kinda cool ! ;_;

Spoiler:

Well I finished Kashiwara's then Chie-nee's arks so far, and despite that I was really anticipating Chie, her route was sorta lacking. The part with the guitar genius old man was unrelated to the whole issue of Chie-nee (unlike Kashi's route with meeting the uncle who gave the guitar of her Father to her), and the part with the yakuza girl made my blood boil. I really despised that girl... And then she even follows them to Tokyo.... Obviously she feels totally obligated to interfere with the issue of Chie-nee's family, despite that she knows her for less than a month. At the latter parts I just ctrl-d through what she says, I so disliked her in the end.
Anyway, I believe the whole divorce thing was a bit overdramatized, I could understand what's happening with my parents when my mom cheated on my dad (I was 8 and my sis 6), yet we didn't take it so badly as the adult Chie. I'm sorry, but I couldn't really sympathize with her in the same situation.
Additionally the ending didn't really solve the issues at all. We didn't see Chie-nee reconciling with her Father, and her baby little brother is still not born yet. I felt the cut where the route ended was a bit too sudden, and I would have liked if these things would have been answered in the end (maybe the true end will answer it, IDK, but don't tell me about it as I don't want to be spoiled). At least the last concert was cool (even Hirakami was playing ).
Kashi's route was nice though.

Well, if you read it correctly, this 'baby little brother' had born when Chie's father new wife was talking to her. You can see it if you look at her stomach ^^;
Glad that you liked Sarina. I found that her development in the ending was. . beautiful. While at the other hand, Chie-nee doesn't have that much impact to me too. But still, after looking at how Chie-nee can symphatized but had a logical feeling of 'resentment' towards her father, I find her story rather. . unique. ^^;

Oh btw, Kirari route is epic ;_; just don't forget to save after you finished the trip.

[izmosmolnar]

Spoiler for Chie's and Kashi's end:

Yeah the old man is cool (funny old playboy), however after leaving him he was not even once mentioned in the story and he didn't have much of a relevancy to the story IMO (for example they could have implemented that Tonoya mentions him in one of his scenes before the graduation concert, because he was clearly hyped about him on the phone).
On the other hand meeting with Kashiwara's Uncle was really crucial in Kashie's route.

Well, Midori only really made me RAGE at the end, but her story was meh. Not to mention that until she's 21 year old, she needs to have a guardian until that, so I really really doubt she could just enroll in such a community so simply like that. But I was particularly pissed when she furiously intervenes with someone else's really delicate family circumstances despite only knowing her for a short time. I bet not even Chie would have appreciated that if she finds out. (If I recall correctly she's not aware of it.)
Well yeah the character sprite indeed seems like she's after giving birth, however I had the impression reading the conversation that she was still pregnant. Well I may have been wrong about that though.
At the very least Kashi's route was better IMO, because it had less drama, and I felt as if it was less "forced" in a sense therefore I could sympathize with her a bit better. The part with breaking the guitar for example or arguing with the Grandfather was really touching. And Kashi's ending wasn't so abruptly ended like Chie's.
Don't worry it's not my first VN (according to my VNDB list I'm closing on 100 soon O_O ), so I'm saving at every choice .

[Ashlotte]

Slowpoke I am finally got around to starting this (Need more time...and money...bah... ).

So far though not horribly impressed...The music is fantastic and I enjoyed Chie's route (and her character in general) a great deal, but I can't get very far into Kashi's route...She just bores me to tears and I keep fighting the urge to fall asleep...

I switched over to Kira, but her voice and general behavior just grates on my nerves like pulling nails across a chalk board...Shes a cute kid don't get me wrong, but in a "oh I'd like to have her as a friend or a daughter" kindof way not romantically...

Ah well I still consider it worth the purchase just for Chie and the music...Ok and maybe Shikako...seriously whose idea was it to give the best character design to the male lead...*grumbles*

[izmosmolnar]

If anyone is interested, Mangagamer finally did listen to the suggestions and started offering demos.
One of the current three games available with a translated demo is Kira Kira (demo is mirrored here ). The demo contains quite a lot in my opinion. Basically the whole school chapter phase is playable with it, and there are a many funny moments in that part.
Please try it out now if you have some free time. After playing through I have to say it is indeed a great game and the demo should be able to reflect that.

[zetsubou-san]

I haven't played many VNs before, but I would say Kira Kira's sub-plots are better than most other mindless VN-based anime (Kimikiss comes to mind, or even the Da Capo series).

If they could've chosen a better seiyuu (for a genki girl, someone like Kanae Ito perhaps) to do Kirari, both her normal and true routes are the best stories in the game.

Otherwise, my favorite character would have to be Sarina.

Another disappointment is that both Sarina's and Chie's routes seems to have been cut short to the high school / college timeline, while Kirari's routes elaborated on the prologue of the gang post-high school. I guess it's not too hard to guess which route the authors intended for the protagonist to take.

Am looking forward to see if Mangagamer decides to continue with "Curtain Call."

[Joachim]

Hmm i would have to say this is one of the best translated VN out there, well story wise and music wise, did i mention that this game has both funny and sad moment?no, not a silly/overacted one, but a good funny and sad moment.

Maybe i haven't play too many eroge these days, and the only japanese eroge that i touch is key's but i would say that people over at 2ch who voted this eroge to be one of the best eroge of 2007 sure have a good taste.

Because i would even say this game is as enjoyable as key's game, the story is good too, so yea buy it, recommended!

[Manic]

Well this was the 1st VN i have played and while the music was awesome the endings were lacking especially Sarina's who was my fav by far. I also think even if lacking in areas it was the best ending. Chei's was ok, but kinda ended on a dumb note. Kirari's were by far the worst endings/routes not even close to being as good as the other 2 girls. Even the true ending sucked imo, and I would rank the sex change ending higher than the both of hers.

like i said tho the soundtrack is awesome and i even went out to find it haha

[Tiberium Wolf]

I am playing the game now and it's awesome.

What I don't like is the inconsistency in translation and typos and other mistakes. Not that is really bad. But what is bad is the text box that is the entire screen and if you darken too much the text box you can't see the background. Don't darken too much you can't read because the background is white or so. One other issue is that there is no indication of who is speaking in each dialog line. When you get like a big text and have a lot of dialog you can get lost when background changes or when you go away and get back and try to re-read the last lines and you don't know who each line belongs too.

I find it odd that this game seems obscured somehow. I got shuffle and omg... the content was so small compared to this one.

[Shadow Kira01]

I will be playing it after Shuffle!. This visual novel seems to have some nice graphics..

[Tiberium Wolf]

Ok... Finished. The true end seems like a general end. Strange that they made it like this.

[Von Himmel]

^
Considering how sad I amd during Kirari's route, I think the good end is not that bad

[klako]

I am currently replaying this game on my iphone. Found this thread when searching for walkthrough on google.

This is definitely my favorite among recent visual novels. I mainly replay it because i am curious about how they will handle the sex scenes on the iphone version. Of course, i am enjoying it all over again (not skipping anything).

The order i played it on PC is Kirari(normal) -> Kashi -> Chie -> Kirari(true). And i feel the Kirari(normal) is actually the most powerful ending. In fact, when i first finish Kashi's ending, my thoughts are "That is it? no epilogue?". I set my expectation too high after the Kirari(normal) and feel a bit disappointed. Both Kashi and Chie endings are quite good, but really feel less complete. There is no "after story" stuff like the two Kirari's endings.

Anyway, Kira Kira's fan with iphone, you can get this game now:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id330628336

Even people who never play this before, you can buy it cheaper on iphone for $10 compare to 37 euro for the PC version. And believe me, even if they cut the sex scenes, the game is still very good.
And after you play it (and realized it is really the best game you ever play ), go buy both versions to support the creators of this game. So they can make more such quality games, and more importantly translate them for english market.

[Shadow Kira01]

There is even an iphone version!?

Well, there is already a playstation 2 version and I am guessing that a psp version with additional content may be likely. For that matter, I guess I will spend time on the visual novel. It does seem very popular. I have yet to decide which route to take though, most likely Kirari.

[Rin-chan]

Sorry to do a bit of necro but I been trying to find something out for awhile now. Who is the seiyuu for Kirari ? I know UR@N does the singing but not positive about the dialog itself and I am having a very hard time finding information on it.

[izmosmolnar]

Nakamura Tomoko. Not much of her is available among english speaking websites unfortunately.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/中村知子
http://beautyplanets.web.fc2.com/VADB/actor/c_3972.html

[Y0K41]

Soo, I take it there is not Midori route? T.T
That one choice regarding your opinion of her got my hopes up.

[izmosmolnar]

Thankfully there isn't.

[Reckoner]

This VN is everything I expected K-ON! to be like. Too bad K-ON! was a failure. This is more deserving of an anime. Very entertaining.

[winkel]

For those with iTouch/iPad/iPhones, the English App version of Kira☆Kira is currently on sale for $4.99 to support the earthquake disaster in Japan. All proceeds will go to the Japan Red Cross.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id330628336?mt=8